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Hi, Thanks for the information on this issue, this happens with my soap too, after being diluted, a month or two later lts hard to take out from the bottle, its kind of jelly appearance, what i thought it might be due to addition of sodium bicarbonate, sodium carbonate or potassium carbonate...

Ita because of high TDS of your diluting water.. most preferably always use water between 0 ppm to 100 ppm... Beyond this you will have more calcium and magnesium in your water which means water hardness is on peak... Alternatively if you are using higher TDS or hard water then you can add...

What is the job of EDTA in liquid soap and how much to add?

the soap was made before, its ready to use, I just added titanium dioxide to get milky/bright white appearance ...but its settle down over night...

Hi all respected member and experienced staff, please help me sort out , I have made cold process liquid soap from coconut and olive oil, using KOH after dilution its transparent amber, I want it to turn milky/bright white I tried using Titanium dioxide, it worked but only for thicker/viscous...

Thanks for your prompt response I guessed it might be due to olive oil i used about 30 kg in total 100kg of soap...next batch i ll try will small quantity... One more thing after dilution my soap is just clear not shiny clear...is there any ingredient that can make soap shine and looking like...

Hi, i am a cold process soap maker but not too much expert...i have made a batch of 80kg coconut oil olive oil palmitic acid and stearic acid plus ethanol the colour at the beginning of the saponification was yellowish which i wanted but at the end the colour changes to greenish which i don't...

But if there are coconut oil fatty acids salt will make clumps and fatty acids will be no more part of soap... This i personally experienced

Hi all Respected members! since 3 days I am on continue work to get Liquid soap through cold process, I have made 15 different batches 3 of which I got what I wanted (pale amber color with no excessive caustic potash) the recipe is 70% coconut oil 30% olive oil problems are: 1: the end solid...

Thank you so much,it was very helpfuland you informative

Hi, best wishes for all I have made my recipe from different oil sources including olive, canola, coconut and linseed oil , now i want to work it as strong antibacterial or antimicrobial .. please suggest me how to enhance this ability One of my colleague told me to add silver nanoparticles to...

Thank you so much for Thank you so much for such a great explanation...love and Respect for you

Thanks for Re Thanks for your Response Dear, actually the percentage i have given not for the material its for their amount in my formulation... You are little mis guaided here , apology for that... I meant to say 27% of my formulation is C16-C18 sat and C18 unsat.. 4% olive...4%...

C16-c18 and unsaturated C18 (27%) Coconut oil (4%) Olive oil 4% Soyabean oil 7% Food grade alcohols 7% Sodium bicarbonate 1% Water 50% This is recipe i designed with KOH but i didn't get what viscosity and transparency i needed... My friend told me it will take too long to cook oils with lye at...